Protectors, Promoters, and the Psychology of Social Balance
But protection and security are only valuable when not excessively cramping to our existence: and in the same way the superiority of consciousness is desirable […]
Depth Psychology
Beyond Ideology – Idealisation, Empathy, and the Collective Psyche in the Digital Age
The recent Beyond Gender conversation with Gurwinder Bhogal is ostensibly about social media, attention, addiction, and political contagion. Yet beneath the immediate discussion lies a […]
The Psychic Ecology of Media, Identity, and Sensemaking
Contemporary discussions about identity formation often focus on the interaction between individuals and media systems. The recent discussion in the Beyond Gender podcast, with Soren […]
This Isn’t Working – The Lost Mythos
The recent episode of This Isn’t Working, featuring HR commentator Tanya de Grunwald in conversation with clinical psychologist Jaco van Zyl, circles an issue that […]
The Feminisation of Institutions and the Lost Language of the Symbolic Feminine
The recent Triggernometry conversation with Helen Andrews centres on a provocative but important claim: that many of the cultural pathologies now gathered under the label […]
Breaking the Spell of Convention – Gnostic and Hermetic Strategies for Awakening, and Jung’s Reading of the “Aion”
When people speak about “breaking free of social convention”, they often mean a change of attitude, a refusal of conformity, or a personal re-imagination of […]
The Psychologist as Drama Critic – Consciousness, Role, and the Suspension of Disbelief
One way of understanding the work of the psychologist is to see them not primarily as a technician of symptoms or a manager of behaviours, […]
Ideology and Cosmology in the Gender Identity Controversy – Why the Argument Feels Immediate, and Why the Mythic Layer Is Often Missing
This article examines the gender identity controversy through a distinction between ideological and cosmological worldviews. It explains why contemporary debate is dominated by legal and […]
Beyond Gender, Marcus Evans, and the Limits of a Purely Individual Myth
In a recent episode of the Beyond Gender podcast, psychoanalyst and former Tavistock governor Marcus Evans describes the crisis in youth gender medicine as “the […]
Rhetorical Hierarchies in the Gender Identity Debate
A comparative analysis of recent UK gender debates shows how competing rhetorical frameworks shape public understanding. By contrasting evidence-based safeguarding arguments with identity-led advocacy, and […]